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Monday, 28 April 2014

Before I announce this time's challenge can I draw your attention to our Design Team call for a new blog which can be found here or here

Kimx is hosting our challenge today and she has chosen'It's A Bug's Life' as her challenge to you. She would like to see Butterflies, Dragonflies, Ladybirds, or any other INSECT as your main image or focal point of your project

CS077D ButterfliesAs a family business we're a friendly, helpful, bunch at Hobby Art. All our stamps are designed by us and manufactured in Britain.
Look at the gallery on my blog - jennymayes.com - for lots of card ideas using the Hobby Art range.
We're pleased to sponsor the Crafty Cardmakers Challenge and look forward to seeing the entries. Good luck everyone. Jenny and all. X

with a $12 gift certificateI have been drawing since a child and studied graphics at College many years ago, I now work as a Medical photographer part time but my love was always drawing. I started cardmaking about 4yrs ago when I bought my daughter a cardmaking kit which we did together, but I’m afraid I got the bug! My daughter preferred scrapbooking. I then started looking online at other blogs and this then became my passion and I loved sharing my cards with like-minded people.
I love stamping and loved finding images, but sometimes I could not find what I wanted so I started to draw myself.
This then has become my second addiction and I have never looked back, I love thinking of new images, and its just fabulous to see others take them and make them into beautiful works of art. Long may it continue!

My card this time is monochrome black and and white with a stamped and zendoodled butterfly which was covered with microbeads. I used a tonic die for the "doily" and a Martha Stewart punch for the paper ribbon.

All links are moderated, please be patient whilst I get the chance to check that your link meets the requirements before adding it to the blog. You will add your link as normal, it just won’t appear immediately. Any entry that does not meet the challenge requirement or that does not follow our simple rules will not be published. If you are having issues with any other linking matter please mail me at the address in the side bar

PLEASE SCROLL UP TO THE PREVIOUS POST FOR OUR DESIGN TEAM CALL. PLEASE DO NOT ENTER YOUR DT CALL ENTRIES IN THIS LINKY AS THIS IS FOR OUR CURRENT CHALLENGE ONLY

Before I announce the winner and Top 5 for our last challenge can I make a plea. Sadly I had to disallow several entries because those people simply hadn’t bothered to read the post prior to adding their entry. They saw the title, Floral Profusion, presumably on Paper Playful and then just went ahead and added their entry even if it had no handmade flowers on it at all. Some were even just images of flowers, and no dimensional flowers were added.

Whilst we are all doing this for fun. The team do work hard to try and inspire you and it’s disheartening when it’s clear that a lot of folks don’t even bother to read the top line of the challenge post (I always define what we want in the top line, it’s not like you have to read through reams of paragraphs to get to the theme!). Anyhow to those of you who did read what we were after, we thank you, and we have our winner and top 5 below.

Fionawas our hostess for our Floral Profusion challenge and she has chosen her winner and Top 5 as follows:-

Congratulations to you all, please feel free to display our Winner’s badge or Top 5 badge on your blogs. Would the winner please contact me at the address in the sidebar stating the number of the challenge, the title of the challenge and which prize they have won in the subject line

The winners have until 11th May to claim their prize, after which time I am afraid the prizes will be forfeit. As we choose our winners, rather than having a random number thingy to pick them it's too difficult and time consuming to go back again and go through the entries to pick out new winners. Neither, sadly do we have time to chase the winners up. If you have emailed and heard nothing, please follow it up with a comment under the winner post as recently I lost a few emails in the spam folder!

I coloured my image with Crayola Pencils before doube matting it. The flowers are all from Prima and the sentiment is from a new CTMH stamp set.Lin

I've made a summer wreath to brighten up my craft space, which is looking a little tired.

All links are moderated, please be patient whilst I get the chance to check that your link meets the requirements before adding it to the blog. You will add your link as normal, it just won’t appear immediately. Any entry that does not meet the challenge requirement or that does not follow our simple rules will not be published. If you are having issues with any other linking matter please mail me at the address in the side bar

Congratulations to you all, please feel free to display our Winner’s badge or Top 5 badge on your blogs. Would the winners please contact me at the address in the sidebar stating the number of the challenge, the title of the challenge and which prize they have won in the subject line

The winners of both challenges have until 27th April to claim their prize, after which time I am afraid the prizes will be forfeit. As we choose our winners, rather than having a random number thingy to pick them it's too difficult and time consuming to go back again and go through the entries to pick out new winners. Neither, sadly do we have time to chase the winners up.